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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Good Horse
Jane Smiley
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
Flambards
K.M. Peyton · 224 pages
Twelve-year-old Christina Parsons is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons, Mark and Will, in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty. 1st book in the Flambards series.
The Renegade
Terri Farley · 230 pages
For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.When an ambitious rodeo contractor comes to town, Sam's worried. The woman wants to buy tamed mustangs from local ranchers, including Sam's dad, and doesn't seem to like taking no for an answer.Then Sam spots the Phantom's herd -- without him. She's sure he's been captured by the rodeo, but how will she find him? And even if
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck · 120 pages
Tells story of a young boy and his life on his father's ranch. Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.
Running Around (And Such)
Linda Byler
A hot-tempered, high-spirited teenaged girl who hates housework, dislikes babies, and loves driving fast horses tries to fit in among the members of her Amish community. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She
Triple Fault
Jessica Burkhart · 268 pages
While pretending to date Jacob to make Sasha jealous, Heather also deals with a new girl who is extremely competitive and a former best friend who steals boyfriends. Sasha tries to keep her budding relationship with Eric a secret while figuring out how to deal with her former best friend going out with Sasha's ex-boyfriend. All the while she is wary of the dangerous new girl named Jasmine. Book #
Wild Thing
Dandi Daley Mackall · 171 pages
After settling in Ashland, Ohio, Winnie Willis discovers a beautiful but mistreated Arabian mare who is known as Salvaje because nobody has been able to train her, and trusts in her Christian faith to find a way to help.
Where the Lilies Bloom
Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver · 175 pages
In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.
My Life with the Walter Boys
Ali Novak, Fallzswimmer · 379 pages
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly. Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves in with her mother's best friend, who has
Paint the Wind
Pam Munoz Ryan · 327 pages
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode
Catch Rider
Jennifer H. Lyne · 288 pages
Despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls, fourteen-year-old Sid pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider--a show rider who can ride anything--with help from her Uncle Wayne.
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 301 pages
*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (19
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 235 pages
"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh
Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt · 256 pages
When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. Grams rundown farm isnt perfect, but they can stay together as a family which
Irish Thoroughbred
Nora Roberts · 208 pages
"Come to America. Your home is with me now." Adelia Cunnane's uncle had written her. So Adelia had left Ireland to join him on what he had described as the finest horse farm in Maryland. Adelia agreed with her uncle about the farm. But what should she think about its owner, Travis Grant? She knew that he could master his strongest horse. She had seen his eyes soften at the birth of a foal. Yet
Riding Lessons
Sara Gruen · 387 pages
Amazing,epic, i bought the book myself it’s amazing annemarie and her daughter Eva basically go too their family farm horse place and annemarie lost her horse Harry and thinks this horse she sees there is Harry
The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans · 448 pages
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse WhispererHe is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal